What a journey I’m about to embark upon! I was notified in March that I was selected to be the next North American Rolex Scholar for the Our World-Underwater Scholarship Society (quite the mouthful!). I have been dreaming of this incredible opportunity ever since I heard about it during a scientific diving internship at the […]

  On mission with Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation and the International League of Conservation Photographers representing iLCP, photographer Michele Westmorland and I had the unique opportunity to shoot the turquoise waters where Tahiti’s famous black pearls are grown.   Pearls come in a rainbow of colors, but Gambier has the reputation for the […]

The Living Ocean Foundation team is hard at work at Hao Atoll, far flung in the Tuamotu Islands of French Polynesia. We’re six days into the first EVER comprehensive reef assessment for this beautiful coral atoll. Normally I would feel right at home on the fish team counting schools, but this cruise has a twist. […]

Scholars are all about teamwork!  Thank you to Oscar for writing this awesome blog about our time together being archaeologists in the Dominican Republic.   After the cold and dark waters of North Carolina, Megan and I boarded planes headed for the Dominican Republic.   We were going to work with Dr. Charlie Beeker from […]

How much do we really know about the planet’s coral reefs? Destinations like Hawaii or Cayman get millions of visitors every year, but have you heard the latest from Mangareva Atoll or Navassa Island? Could you find them on a map? (No Google cheating) The Khaled bin Sultan Living Ocean Foundation is circling the globe […]